SOCI 230 Lecture 9: SOCI 230 Karl Marx: Alienation and Social Change
23 Mar 2017
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** fundamental characteristic of humans is creativity and ability to produce creative capacities results in alienation. ** to understand marx, understand the logic: capitalism and all of its effects. The following 3 things proceed together: concentration and centralization of capital, division of labor: increased specialization, alienation. Lose control of themselves, their species being, their creativity: ex: not much creativity going into putting on windshield wipers over and over in an assembly line. Separation from others: without creativity, distant from overall species in general. Without evolution of capitalism a subject object inversion occurs. Individuals begin as subject, but become objects in labor process: object (material, subject (individual)- homo faber (creative) Labor = what we do: ex: putting windshield wipers on. Worker lacks control of disposal of production including own labor. Worker doesn"t control own labor in work. Human relations reduced to market relations: labor power bought and sold like product.
